Post-Hurricane Matthew Landsat Images of Haiti

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> On Oct 19, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com> wrote:
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> All,
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> In support of this discussion, we offer the following information . . .
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> NASA - Landsat Image Gallery / Data - Hurricane Matthew’s Aftermath in Haiti
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> http://landsat.visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=88933
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> Kindest regards,
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> Kathy
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> Kathy Gilbeaux
> Director of Knowledge Management
> Global Resilience System
> http://resiliencesystem.org
> Twitter - https://twitter.com/resiliencesys
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Meyer <walter@localofficelandscape.com>
> To: michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@me.com>
> Cc: Sam Bloch <sam@communitere.org>; Ilya Azaroff <ia.plusLAB@gmail.com>; Rune Kongshaug <rune@produktif.com>; jose urra <jose.urra86@gmail.com>; Albert Gomez <albert@icassemblies.com>; Kathy Gilbeaux <gilbojer@aol.com>; Alison Thompson <alisonthompson123@yahoo.com>; Linton Wells <linwells@gmail.com>; John T. Hoffman <hoffm584@umn.edu>; Huswald Timothee <htimothee@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 19, 2016 4:35 pm
> Subject: Re: Open Source Ecology in the Post-Hurricane Matthew Disaster Areas in Haiti and Cuba
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> Michael,
> If LiDar topobathy and aerial data are available (pre & post Matthew) a GIS based ecological framework plan could be made for each town. Our firm's suitability assessments based on hydrology, surge, wind, solar, and soils analysis can inform carrying capacity and resettlement strategies. Then there is the issue of time and funding, if the latter was available - we could expedite the process to about 2 weeks per town (normally an 8 week study).
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> I have worked in Baracoa Cuba by the way, it is quite a heritage loss that pales in comparison to the crisis of humanity on the Southern peninsula of Haiti.
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> Walter Meyer, ASLA, LEED-AP
> Professor Parsons New School
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> On Oct 19, 2016, at 11:03 AM, michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@me.com <mailto:michael.d.mcdonald@me.com>> wrote:
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> Sam, Ilya, Walter, and Rune,
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> We are dealing with potentially catastrophic conditions in the southern peninsula in Haiti.
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> Jose Urra (a Cuban open source ecologist, currently in Europe) and I are looking at the best ways of creating resilient “maker” villages in the communities most impacted by Hurricane Matthew in the Haiti and Cuba to help with the response and recovery. Please enter the discourse as you see fit. However, here are my initial questions to you:
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> Sam, Any chance you would like to play a role in building Maker Villages in the most impacted areas of the Greater South (ideally led by Haiti Communitere initially in Les Cayes and Jeremie)?
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> Ilya, Would the American Institute of Architecture like to play a role in planning emergency shelter development transitioning into temporary housing in the disaster zones, given that a few hundred thousand people need improved housing in the short term?
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> Walter, Would you and your networks like to look at the mission critical function assessments of the Resilience Capacity Zones in the Greater South starting with the current top 10 hotspots most affected by the collapse of carrying capacity where hundreds of thousands of people have been living with greatly diminished health, human security, resilience, and sustainability for most of their lives? Would you or others that you know have an interest in collaborative models using open source ecology to create Resilient Communities in these areas that will continue to be highly vulnerable in the years ahead?
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> Rune, Can you explain your current work in Cuba and what you are intending to do with the equivalent of Productiv communities in the post-Hurricane Matthew disaster areas in Cuba and the southern peninsula in Haiti.
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> Background
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> The Haiti Health and Resilience Initiative is continuing the build-out the Haiti Resilience System and Haiti MPHISE (Medical and Public Health Information Sharing Environment) to create a common operating picture and unity of effort to address mission critical gaps affecting health, human security, resilience, and sustainability in Haiti’s 600 Resilience Capacity Zones. The Haiti MPHISE is primary focused on stemming the explosive growth of cholera in the Greater South (Nippes, Grand Anse, and South Departments) following Hurricane Matthew. The Haiti Health and Resilience Initiative has been supporting the Mayors’ Council within the National Federation of Haitian Mayors addressing the areas most impacted by Hurricane Matthew.
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> We are helping to catalyze Mayor’s collaboratories and conferences centered around the legitimately elected officials connected to the interim Central Government, the UN, the key NGOs, US government agencies and other national government relief efforts, most significantly the Cuban medical brigades. Our efforts are approved by the Ministry of Planning and Foreign Engagement. We have established a Mayors’ Council Collaboratory on a What’s App working group. Mayors’ Conferences have now taken place in Les Cayes and Jeremie. We are now in discussions about a Global Unity of Effort Conference for the Response and Recovery of the Greater South in Haiti. I meet on this topic with UN Secretary General’s special envoy on this and other issues this afternoon
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> Mike
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> Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
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> Coordinator
> Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance
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> Chairman
> Oviar Global Resilience Systems, Inc.
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> Executive Director
> Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
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> Cell: 202-468-7899
> Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com <mailto:Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@me.com <mailto:michael.d.mcdonald@me.com>>
> Subject: Re: Open Source Ecology in the Post-Hurricane Matthew Disaster Areas in Haiti and Cuba
> Date: October 19, 2016 at 8:26:12 AM EDT
> To: jose urra <jose.urra86@gmail.com <mailto:jose.urra86@gmail.com>>
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> Jose,
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> This would fit well into the Cuban and Haiti Green Trade Centers linked within a Caribbean Green Trade Network.
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> Mike
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> Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
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> Coordinator
> Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance
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> Chairman
> Oviar Global Resilience Systems, Inc.
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> Executive Director
> Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
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> Cell: 202-468-7899
> Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com <mailto:Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com>
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> http://resiliencesystem.org <http://resiliencesystem.org/>
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> On Oct 19, 2016, at 8:01 AM, jose urra <jose.urra86@gmail.com <mailto:jose.urra86@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Check this concept, is more ore less what is behind the proposals I sent you
> Check this concept, is more ore less what is behind the proposals I sent you
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> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:59 PM, jose urra <jose.urra86@gmail.com <mailto:jose.urra86@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Mike
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> I mean a container not for housing, the container helps to ship a construction set,
> Which may include a tractor, a soil pulverizer, solar panels, and perhaps some structural raw materials like beams, I don't know yet exactly, I was doing some math about it.
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> But the idea is for instance to buy a tractor without being assembled and equipment like that one.
> I mean an easy to deploy local microfactory that can start solving problems of agriculture, housing, etc.
> I also would include blue prints of houses and guiding materials to do so.
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> Conerning ecotourism this is what I meant, and this is the financing strategy I have been looking after recently
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> Jose
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> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:49 PM, michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@me.com <mailto:michael.d.mcdonald@me.com>> wrote:
> Jose,
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> I like the idea. Do you know the concept of Shelter Box? If not look it up. It is what you are talking about, but focused on emergency housing at the family level. You are talking about containers for the community level. There is significant embedded capital in achieving what you are suggesting. That said, it is very important and a reasonable enhancement over the dependency aid that it currently taking place in disaster areas all over the planet.
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> Do you think that Cuba would accept a test in a devastated village on the coast in the Barbacoa area? In that circumstance, ecotourism may be a reasonable open source capital investment that could pay for itself and attract volunteer labor over a 5 year return on investment period.
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> Thoughts? Would you mind if I bring other like-minded innovators into our discussion?
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> I would love to see this happen in open source ecology experiments in both Haiti and Cuba to see how the different socio-political environments would shape the evolution of the open source ecology experiments within sailing distance of each other.
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> Mike
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> Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
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> Coordinator
> Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance
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> Chairman
> Oviar Global Resilience Systems, Inc.
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> Executive Director
> Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
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> Cell: 202-468-7899 <tel:202-468-7899>
> Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com <mailto:Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com>
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> http://resiliencesystem.org <http://resiliencesystem.org/>
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> On Oct 19, 2016, at 7:37 AM, jose urra <jose.urra86@gmail.com <mailto:jose.urra86@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Mike
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> I look forward to talk to you and discuss these issues,
> I was thinking about construction sets toolkits for autonomus development
> (Something that can be packed in few containers including solar panels, machines to build bricks, and other tooling that can be easy to handle and learn by communities) The containers can bee also used to creat a hub for local development that can expand
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> I was thinking to contact Jakubowski and present him these ideas. But I would like to talk to you first and see how it can work out. I have also other ideas concerning microfinancing. These ideas of tooling packages for community capacity building could be financed by people (ecotourism???)
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> Lets talk and see how we can come together and work
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> Jose
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> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:27 PM, michael mcdonald <michael.d.mcdonald@me.com <mailto:michael.d.mcdonald@me.com>> wrote:
> Jose,
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> Perhaps, we can talk on Friday.
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> Do you have any interest in testing some principles in the Hurricane Matthew Disaster Zones in the Greater South of Haiti and Barbacoa? As a result of the significant devastation in both areas, it would be a very important experiment to see how open source ecology is building out in both places. In Haiti, we have set up a Haiti Health and Resilience Initiative Mayors’ Council within the National Federation of Haitian Mayors. The WhatsApp working groups we set up as part of the Haiti Resilience System Resilience Networks are working well, and are consistent with open source ecology.
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> What is emerging well in Barbacoa and surrounding disaster areas?
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> In general, the large response organizations are failing in Haiti. The situation is getting desperate in terms of food security, clean water, cholera management, shelters, etc. through most of the serious disaster areas in Haiti. For three to six years, these areas are likely to see high death rates, extremely high levels of human suffering, and outmigration. Given the collapse of the Central government in Haiti, it is extremely important that the open source ecology is established to enable villagers to thrive in these Severity Level 4, 5, and 6 disaster areas as they transition from the response and relief phases of the post-Matthew period to the recovery and resilience period. .
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> Questions:
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> 1) What can be done with no outside intervention to build up resilient and sustainable communities?
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> 2) What is likely to be done from dependency aid that will perpetuate non-resilient and non-sustainable conditions?
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> 3) Where will the capital come from in the recovery to resilience phases for infrastructure and local innovation supporting open source ecology versus investment focused on hierarchically controlled infrastructures and plantations?
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> It is highly likely that many areas of the Greater South in Haiti will see a collapse in local carrying capacities to the point where large numbers of people will die or migrate out, most likely to Port-au-Prince, or off Hispaniola, if they can get off the island. My sense is that similar pressures will depopulate the hardest-hit areas surrounding Barbacoa for many years, depending on level of devastation and policies of the central Cuban government.
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> Mike
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> Michael D. McDonald, Dr.P.H.
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> Coordinator
> Global Health Response and Resilience Alliance
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> Chairman
> Oviar Global Resilience Systems, Inc.
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> Executive Director
> Health Initiatives Foundation, Inc.
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> Cell: 202-468-7899 <tel:202-468-7899>
> Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com <mailto:Michael.D.McDonald@mac.com>
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> http://resiliencesystem.org <http://resiliencesystem.org/>
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> On Oct 18, 2016, at 10:50 PM, jose urra <jose.urra86@gmail.com <mailto:jose.urra86@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Hey Mike,
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> I am just looking to an interview of yours on resillience (RT channel).
> I was also looking at the chance to work together with you and the Jeremy Rifkin foundation in Washington.
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> I would appreciate talking to you when you have sometime because I am orienting my self now, and trying to find a best place to serve.
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> Still I am following the developments of open source ecology, which can be very important for your resilience inerventions to do for instance bricks from the land, etc.
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> That sounds good, when we talk I will tell you my interests and the latest ideas i have been elaborating.
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> Your proposal sounds good, by the way
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